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Revisiting Digital Preservation - A Tale of Two Undergraduate Majors

AIIM

The history major perhaps explains why I am so intrigued by the question of digital preservation. There are so many aspects of digital preservation that are important to me as a history major – things like “digital memory” and “preserving our cultural heritage” and libraries and formal archives.

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Building and Sustaining a Digital Preservation Program at NARA

National Archives Records Express

This post was written by Elizabeth England and Leslie Johnston, Digital Preservation, Office of the Deputy Archivist of the United States. digital preservation system went into production in 2018, with initial capabilities focused on establishing a new processing, storage, and preservation environment for NARA’s digital holdings.

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Preserving Our Libraries’ Digital Collections is Simple, Powerful, and Affordable

Preservica

Academic libraries are in the midst of rapid, widespread changes as it shifts into the digital age. These institutions surely weathered the pandemic’s storm, keeping communities connected even when doors were closed, but what it inevitably revealed is how preserving the world’s digital memory has never been more important.

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Library and Archives Canada’s journey of discovery: modernising our digital preservation infrastructure using Preservica

Preservica

On World Digital Preservation Day 2018, Sylvain Bélanger, Director General of Digital Operations and Preservation at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) discusses operating at scale, the challenges of preserving high volume born-digital content, and giving Canadians greater access to Canada’s continuing memory.

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Preservica v6.0: next generation active digital preservation and discovery

Preservica

delivers enhanced ease-of-use and new ways of working for archives, libraries, museums and businesses - built on a highly scalable platform designed for the future of digital preservation. Boston, MA US and Oxford, UK | April 04 2019 | Digital preservation leaders, Preservica, today announced the next generation, v6.0,

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Digital Preservation futures: looking ahead to 2030….

Preservica

Much of the discussion in the digital preservation community often focuses on the ‘here and now’. After this year’s PASIG conference in vibrant Mexico City, Preservica ran a community panel session to debate the challenges of preserving digital content, with a focus on casting our minds forward 10 years to the year 2030.

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Digitization vs. Digital Preservation

Preservica

Preservica's VP Marketing Alaine Behler recently sat down with our partner History Associates Incorporated (HAI) for a conversation about digitization vs digital preservation. When did the company get started with digital preservation and why? What is the difference between digitization and digital preservation?